Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.
"How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE
- 2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE
- 3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE
- 4. Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE
- 5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE
- 6. Darkness Descends: 416-1049
- 7. Medieval World: 1050-1321
- 8. Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849
- 9. Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609
- 10. Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700
- 11. France From Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715
- 12. England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702
- 13. Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868
- 14. Patterns of Persecution: 1700-1730
- 15. Sapphic Lovers: 1700-1793
- 16. The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.